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Empire Without Frontier Is Dysgenic
People will leave their shtetl and cultural identities behind to participate in The Empire if there are opportunities available to them that wouldn't be available at home. And I'm not talking about computer job opportunities. I'm talking specifically about...
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Empire Without Front
Patchwork city states ?
With State capacity decline and movement of decentralization how probable is it that we see something like sov corp city states emerging ? First through corporations providing private security (I think this is already the case in Brazil to some extent) eve...
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Patchwork city state
the correct lesson from western civilizational decline
(buttondown.com)
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the correct lesson f
The Domestic Product. Ben Hoffman explains low fertility: we are poor where it counts
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
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The Domestic Product
You've never actually studied history. Matt Ellison on history as conceptual archaeology
(mattellison.substack.com)
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You've never actuall
Kremlin's role in the creation of social media
Those of us who have followed early social media will remember the importance of Milner's DST investment in Facebook. Facebook received $100M at the time, and this allowed them to scale up and dominate social media. He also invested in a variety of other S...
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Kremlin's role in th
10 Hidden Truths of the Past 100 Years by Matt Ellison
(mattellison.substack.com)
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10 Hidden Truths of
Yes it was.
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Yes it was.
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Learning from the Other/making sense of the past: Zhang Jingsheng's utopia of German aestheticism and Confucian statecraft
It seems to me that there have been several conversations here lately that circle back to the idea of lessons from the Other as one part of progress. It seems to come down to the idea that America, embarking on its own Century of Humiliation, or at least i...
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Learning from the Ot
Tragedy and Hope reading group canceled due to lack of interest
The first reading had some good discussion and I was very satisfied with it. The second reading had only one post that wasn’t from me. The third reading had none.
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Tragedy and Hope rea
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Spenglerism with East Asian characteristics
This article discusses what Mr. King calls the most "notorious stalwart" of the Chinese intellectual dark web, Mr. Liu Chung-king.
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Spenglerism with Eas
Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion III
Our reading this time was chapter V, The First World War, 1914-1918, and chapter VI, The Versailles System and the Return to “Normalcy”. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read these chapters.
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Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion II
Our reading this time was chapter IV, The Buffer Fringe. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read that chapter.
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Based Japanese Education
A few months ago, I encountered one of the most based tweets that I have ever seen. My Japanese is mediocre, so this is largely a machine translation, but I will try to do her writing and the classical poetry justice.
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Based Japanese Educa
Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion I
Our reading this time was chapter I, Western Civilization in its World Setting; chapter 2, Western Civilization to 1914; and chapter 3, The Russian Empire to 1917. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read these chapters.
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A musing on unitary power
A common defense of democracy is that while it does not guarantee the establishment of good government, it ensures the removal of a bad one.
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A musing on unitary
The power of the american empire
In https://www.postapathy.com/p/long-americana, Mr. Soldo examines how Europe has become entirely subjugated by the current American elite, who are able to mask themselves with the assistance of Brussels, and
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The power of the ame
What are the most important (history, philosophy, etc.) books for the home educator to read?
Think: “things the teacher needs to know so he or she can avoid misleading his or her students”.
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What are the most im
Eight Books To Read (Samo Burja's recommendations for independent study of society)
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Eight Books To Read
Alaric, King of the Visigoths. Why rome was sacked and why we might have to do it again.
(arktos.com)
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Alaric, King of the